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It's basically this. Whites who can afford private school don't want their kids to be around a lot of black and brown kids in public schools. The few in private? Palatable.

NOVA / DC area is one of the most diverse in the country, however, education-wise, whites want it like somewhere in Indiana. [/quote]

This isn’t quite true. The rich private school parents want their kids to be around other rich kids. They can be rich kids of any color though. Like world bank kids, embassy kids, black surgeons’ kids etc. It’s not so much a color thing - they don’t want poor kids of any color, including poor white kids.  Just my observation as a parent at a very diverse private school. [/quote]

+1 this is spot on.  Also why most parents are against financial aid.[/quote]
Suprisingly most family’s at my kids school are middle class rather than poor is this uncommon?[/quote]

Assuming your school is a public school, we have very different definitions of what poor is.

Most likely, these middle class families in your public school would be relatively poor elsewhere.[/quote]
I meant with FA I just forgot to write it as I was in a rush.[/quote]

For the range of incomes at the school, they are on the low side and qualify for financial aid.

For many reasons, private day schools cannot admit truly poor kids.  It would not be fair to surround them with so much excess.  The kids need stable food, transportation, clothing, housing, etc and to actually fit in would also need access to vacations, athletics, hobbies, tutors, etc. it all gets very expensive.[/quote]

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